Adding to my goal to read 52 books in 2017, I also made a goal to watch 100+ popular TED Talks in 2017.
The jaw-dropping, persuasive, fascinating, and inspiring talks given at TED are transforming me as a leader and as a man.
Here’s what I’ve watched so far:
- 01.08.2017 Lara Boyd: After watching this, your brain will not be the same
- 01.10.2017 Brian Boxer-Wachler: fight for sight
- 01.11.2017 Tai Lopez: Why I read a book a day (and why you should too)
- 01.12.2017 Ken Robinson: Do schools kill creativity?
- 01.12.2017 Dan Pink: The puzzle of motivation
- 01.14.2017 Elizabeth Gilbert: Your elusive creative genius
- 01.23.2017 Emilie Wapnick: Why some of us don’t have one true calling
- 01.25.2017 Larry Smith: Why you will fail to have a great career
- 01.26.2017 Anne Curzan: What makes a word “real”?
- 02.02.2017 Aaron O’Connell: Making sense of a visible quantum object
- 02.02.2017 James Veitch: This is what happens when you reply to spam email
- 02.02.2017 Tim Urban: Inside the mind of a master procrastinator
- 02.02.2017 Barry Schwartz: The paradox of choice
- 02.03.2017 Daniel Levitin: How to stay calm when you know you’ll be stressed
- 02.03.2017 Deb Roy: The birth of a word
- 02.06.2017 Evelyn Glennie: How to truly listen
- 02.13.2017 John Lloyd: An inventory of the invisible
- 02.17.2017 Iain McGilchrist: The divided brain
- 02.17.2017 Nagin Cox: What time is it on Mars?
- 02.18.2017 Hans and Ola Rosling: How not to be ignorant about the world
- 02.26.2017 Brian Greene: Is our universe the only universe?
- 03.01.2017 Daniel Goldstein: The battle between your present and future self
- 03.01.2017 Tony Robbins: Why we do what we do
- 03.03.2017 Julian Treasure: How to speak so that people want to listen
- 03.03.2017 Robert Waldinger: What makes a good life? Lessons from the longest study on happiness
- 03.06.2017 Keith Barry: Brain magic
- 03.07.2017 Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: The danger of a single story
- 03.11.2017 Hans Rosling: The best stats you’ve ever seen
- 03.11.2017 Monica Lewinsky: The price of shame
- 03.11.2017 John Koenig: Beautiful new words to describe obscure emotions
- 03.14.2017 Angela Lee Duckworth: Grit: The power of passion and perseverance
- 03.14.2017 Jackie Tabick: The balancing act of compassion
- 03.27.2017 Megan Phelps-Roper: I grew up in the Westboro Baptist Church. Here’s why I Left
- 03.28.2017 JK Rowling: The fringe benefits of failure
- 03.30.2017 Eduardo Briceño: How to get better at the things you care about
- 04.02.2017 Shawn Achor: The happy secret to better work
- 04.02.2017 Kelly McGonigal: How to make stress your friend
- 04.04.2017 Tim Harford: How frustration can make us more creative
- 04.05.2017 Alain de Botton: A kinder, gentler philosophy of success
- 04.09.2017 Astro Teller: The unexpected benefit of celebrating failure
- 04.14.2017 David Bolinsky: Visualizing the wonder of a living cell
- 04.16.2017 Laura Vanderkam: How to gain control of your free time
- 04.18.2017 Willard Wigan: Hold your breath for micro-sculpture
- 04.19.2017 Michael Rubinstein: See invisible motion, hear silent sounds
- 04.20.2017 Robin Ince: Science versus wonder?
- 04.20.2017 Charlie Todd: The shared experience of absurdity
- 04.20.2017 Marc Abrahams: A science award that makes you laugh, then think
- 04.21.2017 Jean-Baptiste Michel + Erez Lieberman Aiden: What we learned from 5 million books
- 04.21.2017 Seth Godin: How to get your ideas to spread
- 04.28.2017 Brian Little: Who are you, really? The puzzle of personality
- 04.28.2017 Ken Robinson: Bring on the learning revolution!
- 04.28.2017 Ken Robinson: How to escape education’s death valley
- 05.03.2017 J.J. Abrams: The mystery box
- 05.09.2017 Stella Young: I’m not your inspiration, thank you very much
- 05.09.2017 Chip Kidd: Designing books is no laughing matter. OK, it is.
- 05.09.2017 Paul Bloom: The origins of pleasure
- 05.10.2017 Rory Sutherland: Perspective is everything
- 05.11.2017 Jarrett J. Krosoczka: How a boy became an artist
- 05.11.2017 Joshua Walters: On being just crazy enough
- 05.12.2017 Simon Anholt: Which country does the most good for the world?
- 05.13.2017 Nancy Duarte: The secret structure of great talks
- 05.15.2017 Drew Dudley: Everyday leadership
- 05.15.2017 Robert Sapolsky: The biology of our best and worst selves
- 05.17.2017 Andy Puddicombe: All it takes is 10 mindful minutes
- 05.31.2017 Daniel Goleman: Why aren’t we more compassionate?
- 06.05.2017 Ben Ambridge: 10 myths about psychology, debunked
- 06.05.2017 Natalie Warne: Being young and making an impact
- 06.07.2017 Casey Brown: Know your worth, and then ask for it
- 06.07.2017 Angélica Dass: The beauty of human skin in every color
- 06.11.2017 Yves Morieux: As work gets more complex, 6 rules to simplify
- 06.13.2017 Jamila Lyiscott: 3 ways to speak English
- 06.13.2017 Amy Purdy: Living beyond limits
- 06.14.2017 Steven Johnson: Where good ideas come from
- 06.16.2017 Ricardo Semler: How to run a company with (almost) no rules
- 06.17.2017 James Altucher: Choose yourself
- 06.17.2017 Lizzie Velasquez: How do you define yourself?
- 06.17.2017 Mel Robbins: How to stop screwing yourself over
- 06.20.2017 Sam Berns: My philosophy for a happy life
- 07.02.2017 Mehdi Ordikhani-Seyedlar: What happens in your brain when you pay attention?
- 09.01.2017 Susan Cain: The power of introverts
- 09.01.2017 Pamela Meyer: How to spot a liar
- 11.20.2017 Scott Geller: The psychology of self-motivation
- 11.30.2017 David Blaine: How I held my breath for 17 minutes
- 12.06.2017 Dan Pallotta: The way we think about charity is dead wrong
- 12.01.2017 Joshua Harris: Strong enough to be wrong
- 12.19.2017 John McWhorter: 4 reasons to learn a new language
- 12.19.2017 Ajit Narayanan: A word game to communicate in any language
- 12.20.2017 Miguel Nicolelis: Brain-to-brain communication has arrived. How we did it
- 12.20.2017 Elif Shafak: The revolutionary power of diverse thought
- 12.20.2017 Steven Pinker: What our language habits reveal
- 12.24.2017 Sophie Scott: Why we laugh
- 12.27.2017 Carrie Green: Programming your mind for success
- 12.31.2017 Lisa Bu: How books can open your mind
- 12.31.2017 Bernie Dunlap: The life-long learner
- 01.12.2018 Tali Sharot: The optimism bias
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01.24.2018 Caroline Leaf: Science of Thought